Editing Talk:1169: Expedition

He should have written: ''... than in any <u>other</u> game.'' --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 06:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
:Not really. That would imply Google Maps is a game too. It's just a piece of software he uses as a game.
::Erm ... that's the point. --[[User:Kronf|Kronf]] ([[User talk:Kronf|talk]]) 13:40, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Someone should write a game for this. It would just use the google maps API. It starts by putting you at a random point and the zoom is disabled. Then you have to navigate to a city. [[Special:Contributions/75.181.36.6|75.181.36.6]] 13:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
:Great idea! I’d definitely play it. --[[Special:Contributions/77.186.78.102|77.186.78.102]] 15:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
::There used to be a game (don't know if it is still played) called "Table Top Rallying". It involved a Rand McNally map of the USA (and it had the be the right Rand McNally map for the year). Participants would "drive" around the map, collecting clues and answering questions, and the like. [[Special:Contributions/194.106.220.85|194.106.220.85]] 09:17, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
::My kids and I invented a similar game using google maps.  It was called "Would you live?" and involved getting a sum of pretend money with which to pretend buy things on ebay, after which you would be dropped at a random point on the map.  We used random.org to get the random location.  You got more money for the next round if you survived, and bonus points for how quickly you could identify where you were on the map, starting from the mostzoomed in point.  My son, then ten years old, scored a major coup by finding a giant barge on ebay for $800.  Saved him many of the times he was dumped in the north pacific. --Tamara G.

I just tried out what Cueball suggests, and the first city I found was Yakutsk. Knowing well that downstream from Yakutsk there are at least some settlements, I made a quick Google/Wikipedia search for those and found ''1710:Yakutsk:. 1560 Aldan River from the east. River tends northwest. 1373:Sangar: coal mines. 1560:Vilyuy River from the west. River tends north. 959:Arctic Circle. 939:Zhigansk,founded in 1632, 865:Agraphena Island. 545:Sikhtyakh. 385:Kyushur:regional center. 222:Lena Delta'' (Wikipedia; numbers are kilometers from the mouth).
Sangar’s here [https://maps.google.de/maps?q=%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F,+%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0+(%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F),+%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=63.944009,127.460632&spn=0.170408,0.441513&sll=70.670881,127.394714&sspn=0.513643,1.766052&oq=%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80&t=h&hnear=Sangar,+Russia&z=11], Zhigansk’s a lot blurrier [https://maps.google.de/maps?q=%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F,+%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0+(%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F),+%D0%96%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=66.775804,123.393631&spn=0.076491,0.220757&sll=71.580532,126.968994&sspn=0.490331,1.766052&oq=%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0&t=h&hnear=Zhigansk,+Russia&z=12], Siktyakh (Wiki misspelled it and Google Maps shows it in the wrong point – it’s, of course, down by the river) is hardly to see [https://maps.google.de/maps?q=%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F,+%D0%A0%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0+(%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F),+%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8F%D1%85&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=69.910586,125.104408&spn=0.016657,0.055189&sll=69.783461,125.047073&sspn=0.134065,0.441513&oq=%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%85%D1%82%D1%8F%D1%85&t=h&hnear=Siktyakh,+Russia&z=14], and if anyone can point me to the “regional center” Kyushur, I’d be infinitely thankful.
(In fact, I could not find Kyushur in any source except this Wikipedia site and a translation of a part of a Lithuanian report about Gulag life. Cyrillic script gave no results at all.) --[[Special:Contributions/77.186.78.102|77.186.78.102]] 15:50, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Kyusyur's Wikipedia page is here: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%8E%D1%80 .[[Special:Contributions/212.51.202.130|212.51.202.130]] 16:23, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
:I knew it must have been a typo! In fact, the Google Maps image of Kyusyur is a lot less blurred out than Zhigansk and Siktyakh: [http://goo.gl/maps/UvR7C] --[[Special:Contributions/77.186.104.182|77.186.104.182]] 10:39, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Google Maps is [[1110|Click and Drag]] on steroids. [[User:Alpha|Alpha]] ([[User talk:Alpha|talk]]) 00:49, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Should the explanation say what the Google Maps is showing? That ruins the game he's given us! [[Special:Contributions/50.81.41.36|50.81.41.36]] 06:15, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
: Umm… it just shows “the mouth of the Lena River” exactly as the comic says in the first sentence! --[[User:Mormegil|Mormegil]] ([[User talk:Mormegil|talk]]) 16:32, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

No way to really tell, but it reminded me of [[288|Elevator]]. [[Special:Contributions/119.224.49.84|119.224.49.84]] 13:26, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
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 No way to really tell, but it reminded me of [[288|Elevator]]. [[Special:Contributions/119.224.49.84|119.224.49.84]] 13:26, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
-I use a similar "game" to challenge myself and improve my skills of orientation. I go to Google earth (or google maps with satelite images), disable all markers/labels, get zoomed out over Europe (where I live) and then try to zoom in to a particular place, without of moving the view. So first e.g. scrolling until I got Germany in focus, then until it is western Germany, then I got some landmarks (big cities, mountain ranges) pretty handy already and can get into more detail. I started with easy challenges (my current place of living in a larger town), continued with harder ones (my old home in small towns/villages), places of friends/relatives I visited a handfull times, places I have been on vacation... If it gets to hard, I either open the map view in another tab, or click a place to see the description (oh, if this is city A, I need to go much further down that river to find city B)... Usually after trying with these hints for a few times it gets easy to find the right landmarks on each zoom level, and get much better orientation around that area. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 14:23, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
-Not directly related, but: isn't it interesting how the complexity of a game has little to no correlation with how much time the obsessives spend on it? [[User:Beanie|Beanie]] ([[User talk:Beanie|talk]]) 11:28, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
-There's a game called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoGuessr GeoGuessr]  that drops you in a random Google Street View location and you have to figure out where you are from what you can see of your surroundings. [[User:The Cat Lady|-- The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady|talk]]) 23:33, 22 September 2021 (UTC)